It was a dark and stormy night.....no really it was early August and I had some bamboo terry laying around (doesn't everybody?) We used prefolds exclusively then and so I decided to make a true bamboo terry prefold.

Here's a picture from Sep 2007. Don't you just love the wonky lines, lol.

and Molly modeling:

So began the journey. I decided that making bamboo prefolds the traditional way (of folding and having layers in the middle) was taking too long to dry and were a pain to make. I remember trying to think of a new way to do it that would be less work, just as absorbant and would dry pretty fast. I also wanted to sell them and didn't want to copy the ladies who were making prefolds.

Finally it hit me at 10:00 pm while I lay in bed. Please don't tell me I'm the only one who thinks of diapers at night! What if I did two layers of bamboo velour, which I knew to be absorbant, with a layer of terry throught the middle? The terry was thin and wouldn't add bulk. I got up the next morning and made my first one. I decided to put stitching lines down the middle to give it stability and easier folding.

I serged all around with colored thread but didn't like the look. I wanted them to look like a prefold. So I did natural serging on the sides and soft wooly nylon colored thread for the top and bottom. Then I was happy. These didn't look like anything I had seen out there. It is very important to me to be original (at least to my knowledge).

I tested them out for 1 month on Molly and found out the it was hard to Snappi bamboo velour. I was scared of pins back then! So I put two layers of velour together and backed it with bamboo terry. This created a Snappi-able layer.

In November 2007, I opened my cart and debuted my Molly bamboo velour preflat ^TM and my Grae Snappi-able bamboo velour/terry preflat^TM. Seriously 5 minutes after I went live, I had an order. I couldn't believe it! By the end of the day I was sold out and haven't been able to keep them in stock since. Thank you all so much.

I orginally called them flats but that didn't really describe what they were. They were a cross between a flat (no layers in the very middle) and a prefold (size wise). So my husband said "How about a preflat?" Since I couldn't think of anything better (lol), preflat^TM it was.

Oh and in case you are wondering, all of my products are named for my kids. Peanutbutter & Ellie is named for my daughter Ellie and up until November 2007 was the name of my children's clothing line.